Reversing severe muscle wasting in disease, aging and trauma – Monash University

11 February 2021
An exciting discovery by Monash University scientists may lead to faster recovery from muscle injury and wasting diseases.
When we tear a muscle – stem cells within it repair the problem. We can see this occurring not only in severe muscle wasting diseases such as muscular dystrophy and in war veterans who survive catastrophic limb injuries, but also in our day to day lives when we “pull” a muscle. Also when we age and become frail we lose much of our muscle and our stem cells don’t…

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